Candace Templeton$ ago 13, of Remsen, ., or a question:

How do stars burn in outer space?

A fire we are told needs oxygen with which to burn. If you shut off the supply of oxygen even from a candles it flutters and goes out. Yet the sun and the stars burn without ceasing day in and day out, year in and year out ‑ and we are told that there is no airy no oxygen, nothing at all in the empty space in which they burn.

The fiery stars are not like our fires and furnaces upon earth. They are atomic furnaces! Perhaps monster copies of our hydrogen bombs. They get their energy and their fuel from the breaking up and the fusing together of atoms. The fuel of the sun is believed to be hydrogen gas and the atomic energy is given forth when this lightest of all gases is fused to make heavier atoms of helium. The fuel is in the star itself and the fiery furnace requires no oxygen with which to burn.